Cash dispensing automated banking machine with note unstacking and validation

A method comprising:

• (a) picking a first note bounding a stack of notes from the stack with at least one picking member engaged with the first note, wherein the picking causes the first note to move in a first direction toward at least one stripper member;
• (b) engaging notes other than the first note with the at least one stripper member, wherein generally notes other than the first note are prevented from moving from the stack;
• (c) sensing with at least one sensor before the first note has disengaged from the stack, that at least one additional note has moved with the first note from the stack past the at least one stripper member;
• (d) responsive to (c),
• moving the first note in a second direction opposed of the first direction while engaged with the at least one picking member,
• moving the at least one additional note in the second direction relative to the first note while the first note moves in the second direction, and
• moving the at least one additional note in the second direction for a longer period of time than the first note is moved in the second direction.

A method performed in operation of an automated banking machine including at least one currency note dispenser, comprising:

• (a) moving a first note bounding a stack of notes input to the machine by a user in a first direction by engagement with at least one picking member;
• (b) engaging at least one other note in the stack with at least one stripper member as the first note moves in the first direction, wherein generally only the first note moves in the first direction past the at least one stripper member;
• (c) sensing with at least one sensor notes moved past the at least one stripper member in the first direction;
• (d) responsive to sensing more than one note moved in the first direction past the at least one stripper member with the at least one sensor,
• moving the first note in a second direction opposed of the first direction,
• moving at least one note in the second direction relative to the first note while the first note moves in the second direction, and
• moving at least one note other than the first note in the second direction a distance greater than the first note is moved in the second direction.