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Common Money Handling Terms:
Adding - Adding allows you to count multiple runs of bills and add them to the previous batch to keep a running cumulative count. For example, you run through a batch of 100 bills, and then stop. With adding you can then run another batch and add that total to the first batch.
Batching - Batch counting allows you to count bills in predetermined set batches. If you want to sort into piles of 100 bills, the machine will count 100 bills, then stop. Once you remove that batch, it will continue counting the next batch of 100 bills, then stop again.
Bleaching - Creating counterfeit bills by washing or bleaching the ink from lower-denomination bills and reprinting them as larger denominations with sophisticated computer scanners and printers.
Chain Note - When a leading bill has pulled in a trailing bill prematurely, causing a potential miscount.
Discrimination - Refers to a machine's ability to automatically tell the difference between denominations. The majority of bill counters do not have this feature (see mixed bill counter).
Display - Where the count total is shown on the machine. Contrary to popular belief, 95% of money counters only display the total number of bills counted and not the actual dollar value.
Double Note - When two bills have been fed simultaneously, causing a potential miscount.
Error Detection - Machines with error detection can automatically sense common errors such as double notes, chain notes, and half notes.
Half Note - Torn or folded bills.
Hopper - The part of a money counter that receives the bills to be counted…some are front loading, some are back loading. Traditionally front loaders (sometimes called top loaders) have been on top and toward the front of currency counter and the bills have stacked horizontally. Back loaders have traditionally been toward the back of the counter, and have stacked the bills vertically on the edges of the bill. Some companies like Cassida are developing systems which stack the bills horizontally, but at the back of the counter. This allows a much higher stack of bills to be put into the hopper at a time, speeding up the counting process. Horizontally stacked bills tend to feed more reliably than the conventional vertically stacked back-loaders.
IR Detection - Infrared technology is based on the use of special IR dyes, all of which the human eye in normal light perceives as one color. Illuminated with an infrared light these dyes can be easily differentiated. Once the bill is under the infrared light only the area coated with the dye reflecting IR-rays will be seen.
MG Detection - US bills are printed using dyes with magnetic properties. MG detection verifies the magnetic properties of this ink. Counterfeiters will often take a $5 bill and wash the ink off with chemicals and then reprint the bill as a higher denomination. MG detection will spot these "washed" counterfeit bills whereas other traditional deterrents like counterfeit pens will not.
Mixed Bill Counter - A money counter with discrimination capabilities does not require presorting and counts and displays the number of bills provided, plus evaluates the value of each bill. A mixed bill counter may have multiple counting and/or sorting modes; including counting and sorting by the value (denomination).
Mixed Counting Mode - The currency counter counts mixed denomination bills and gives the count and value of each denomination. Presorting is not required. In "Mixed Counting Mode," the counter is not sorting the bills so the operator does not select a denomination and the machine does not stop on a stranger (single pocket) or reject the stranger (two pocket). In this mode the machine just value counts (in dollars) all of the bills without any sorting. See "Mixed Bill Counter" above.
Mixed Sorting Mode - A mixed bill or discriminating currency counter may be set to sort and count one specified denomination. When counter detects a different denomination in a one pocket discriminating counter, it stops and operator removes the bill of a different denomination and restarts counter. With a two pocket discriminating counter, a bill different from the one specified is “sorted” into a second pocket (tray) and the counter continues to look for and count the denomination specified without stopping until the hopper is empty or the “reject” tray is full. “Rejects” in the second pocket are then placed in the hopper and another denomination is selected. No presorting is required.
Note Size - When a bill appears to be too large or small for the expected parameters.
Piece Counting - Counts the number of bills placed in the hopper. No value is displayed, only the number of pieces going through the counter.
Size Detection - Many bill counters can sense the dimensions of the bills. It can be used for counting currency in countries other than the US where currency denominations may be different sizes.
Stacker - The part of the money counter into which the bills are deposited after they are counted.
UV Detection - Bank notes incorporate fluorescent dyes (security threads), which glow under exposure to UV illumination. Manual counterfeit detectors with UV counterfeit detection utilize an ultraviolet light source to check the bill for these marks. The operator looks for these security features, and if not found, or if not the right color or location, determines by observation that the bill is counterfeit. Genuine US currency absorbs UV light. Paper used in most counterfeit bills reflects UV light. So in an automatic counterfeit detector or currency counter with UV detection built in, this UV light is reflected back into sensors inside the system. The operator is then automatically notified of the suspicious bill.
Value Counting - Presort your bills and place the denomination you want to count in the hopper. The currency counter will give you both piece count of the bills and will also give you dollar value of your counting. At the end of counting, it will display on the screen the total value of your count and number of pieces and value of each denomination. A discriminating (mixed bill) counter does not require presorting.
Watermark Detection - The watermark is one of the most obvious security features of a paper banknote. In a manual counterfeit detection system, a white fluorescent light highlights the faint images on the bills, usually a portrait similar to that printed on the note. In a currency counter, watermarks are identified automatically as each bill is counted. If no watermark, or the wrong watermark is found, the operator is notified.
