Paper money handling machine

A bill management system for collecting from a bill handling apparatus, which handles bills each having an IC chip holding unique discriminative information, information on the bills and managing the information, comprising:

• the bill handling apparatus including a manipulating unit for selecting the type of transaction to be done by a customer;
• a controller for recognizing the type of the transaction selected with the manipulating unit;
• a bill discriminator reader for reading surface information on the bills handled and performing true/false determination of the bills;
• and a wireless IC reader for reading discriminative information held by the IC chips of the conveyed bills;
• a memory unit for storing a first bill management table and a second management table;
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• an information processing unit for search information stored in the memory device by using the discriminative information as a key,
• wherein said first bill management table registers the discriminative information obtained from the IC chips through said the wireless IC reader, information on a result of discrimination ob bills through said bill discriminator, and transaction information including a type of transaction by the customer, the discriminative information and the information on the result of discrimination being obtained every time the bill passes through said the wireless IC reader and said bill discriminator,
• wherein the same information can be registered a plurality of times in said first bill management table,
• wherein said second management table registers said discriminative information, the result information, and the transaction information from said first bill management table of which the information is rearranged in sequence of the discriminative information without duplication of the same the discriminative information, and
• wherein said discriminative information, the result information, and the transaction information are searchable by a processing means for tracing the bill.

A bill management method for use in a bill handling apparatus, which handles bills each having an IC chip holding unique discriminative information, comprising:

• recognizing the type of transaction to be done by each customer using the bill handling apparatus;
• conveying bills over a conveying path for transactions with customers;
• reading with a bill discriminator, installed on the conveying path, surface information on the conveyed bills and performing true/false determination of the bills;
• reading with a wireless IC reader discriminative information held by the IC chips of the bills conveyed over the conveying path;
• providing a first bill management table and a second management table in a memory unit;
• storing in said first bill management table the discriminative information obtained from the IC chips through said wireless IC reader, information on a result of discrimination of bills through said bill discriminator, and transaction information including a type of transaction by the customer, the discriminative information, and the information on the result of discrimination being obtained every time the bill passes through said the wireless IC reader and said bill discriminator, wherein the same information can be registered a plurality of times in said first management table;
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• storing in said second management table said discriminative information, the result information and the transaction information from said first bill management table of which the information is arranged in sequence of the discriminative information without duplication of the same the discriminative information,
• wherein said discriminative information, the result information, and the transaction information are searchable by a processing means for tracing the bill.