Patent ID: 8893959

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine operable to cause financial transfers responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records, wherein the machine includes at least one user data reader operable to read user data usable to identify a financial account of a machine user, wherein the machine is operable to carry out a financial transaction involving the account, wherein the machine includes a cash dispenser, wherein the cash dispenser is operable to dispense currency notes to authorized users of the machine, wherein the machine is operable to carry out a cash dispense transaction on a financial account for an authorized user, based at least in part on a computer-determined relationship between user data read by the at least one user data reader and the financial account, wherein the machine includes at least one note picker, wherein the at least one note picker is operable to take at least one currency note from a currency cassette, wherein the machine includes at least one cassette data reader, wherein the at least one cassette data reader is operable to read from the currency cassette, cassette data indicative of currency note denomination held by the cassette, wherein the machine includes at least one note reader, wherein the at least one note reader is operable during a cash dispense transaction to read note data from each currency note taken from the currency cassette during the transaction, wherein the machine is operable during the transaction to determine from note data read by the at least one note reader, a respective currency note denomination of each respective currency note taken from the currency cassette, wherein the machine is operable during the transaction to determine whether a currency note denomination determined from note data read by the at least one note reader differs from the currency note denomination indicated by the cassette data, wherein the machine is operable responsive at least in part to a determination of differing currency note denominations, to cause at least one denomination discrepancy message to be sent to at least one remote computer.