Medium handling apparatus and method, financial device

A medium handling apparatus comprising:

• an identification number recognition module to recognize an identification number of a medium;
• a memory in which a condition with respect to a management target medium is stored;
• and
• a controller determining whether the medium is the management target medium by determining whether the identification number of the medium recognized by the identification number recognition module satisfies the condition with respect to the management target medium stored in the memory,
• wherein the medium recognized by the identification number recognition module is at least one of paper money and check, and
• wherein the memory comprises:
• a first memory in which a first condition with respect to the management target medium is stored;
• and
• a second memory in which a second condition with respect to the management target medium is accumulatively stored;
• wherein the identification number recognition module comprises a third memory into which a recognized identification number of a first medium is temporarily stored,
• wherein if the controller determines that an identification number of a second medium recognized by the identification number recognition module and the identification number of the first medium stored into the third memory are duplicated,
• then the second medium having the duplicated identification number as the management target medium and information with respect to the duplicated identification number is stored into the second memory, and
• then information with respect to the identification number of the first medium temporarily stored in the third memory is deleted after a transaction of the medium handling apparatus is finished.