Method and apparatus for processing currency bills and coins

A method for processing currency bills and coins in a system including a currency bill processing device and a coin processing device, at least one of said bill device and said coin device including a resident memory, comprising:

• providing a cash receptacle having a plurality of currency bills and coins;
• determining a currency bill total using said currency bill processing device, and determining a coin total using said coin processing device;
• providing a round-off amount and a total amount, said total amount being a cash amount desired for availability in said cash receptacle after an adjusting step;
• determining a coin batch by using said round-off amount to approximate said coin total to a predetermined dollar amount;
• subtracting said coin batch from said total amount to obtain a bill batch;
• determining a coin difference amount by subtracting said coin batch from said coin total;
• determining a bill difference amount by subtracting said bill batch from said currency bill total;
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• adjusting said cash receptacle in accordance with said coin difference amount and said bill difference amount, an operator removing an amount of coins equal to said coin difference amount if said coin difference amount is a positive number, said operator removing an amount of currency bills equal to said bill difference amount if said bill difference amount is a positive number, said operator adding an amount of coins equal to said coin difference amount if said coin difference is a negative number, and said operator adding an amount of currency bills equal to said bill difference amount if said bill difference amount is a negative number.

A system for processing currency bills and coins in a cash receptacle for automatically determining a currency batch, comprising:

• a coin device for counting coins in the cash receptacle and determining a coin total;
• a bill device for counting bills in the cash receptacle and determining a bill total, said bill device being communicatively linked to said coin device;
• a memory being resident on at least one of said coin device and said bill device, said memory storing an operating mode for processing currency bills and coins, said memory further storing a target amount;
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• a central processing unit for determining a bill removal amount, said bill removal amount being the difference between said target amount and a total of said coin total and said bill total, said central processing unit being communicatively linked to at least one of said coin device and said bill device.

A method for processing currency bills and coins in a cash processing system that includes a currency bill processing device and a coin processing device, said cash processing system including a resident memory, comprising:

• providing a drawer containing a plurality of currency bills and a plurality of coins;
• providing a target amount of cash to be returned to said drawer, said cash being returned after said plurality of currency bills and said plurality of coins are processed;
• determining a coin total corresponding to the value of said plurality of coins in said drawer by using said coin processing device;
• determining a bill total corresponding to the value of said plurality of bills in said drawer by using said currency bill processing device;
• determining a return-to-drawer bill amount;
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• returning said return-to-drawer bill amount worth of currency bills to said drawer.