A cash dispensing system capable of automatically counting and dispensing cash of the amount requested by a customer to be withdrawn is disclosed. Where an error occurs in a cash dispensing process, cash dispensing is stopped and the cash dispensing operation is repeated from the beginning. Where the error occurs a predetermined number of times, the cash dispensing operation is entirely stopped.

In a coin counting device for an automatic vending machine, the outputs of counters adapted to counts the number of inserted coins separately according to the denominations of the coins are multiplied by the factors which are set by setting circuits separately according to the denominations, respectively, to obtain the total amount of money of the inserted coins. The factors can be changed according to the denominations of coins to be handled by the automatic vending machine, without modifying the circuitry, so that the device can handle coins of any denominations.

A bank note dispensing method, in which, when a manually payable sum is included in the sum requested to be repaid, the sum other than the manually payable sum is discharged with the bank notes of preset or specified denominations from a bank note discharger so that they are temporarily stored in a temporary bank note storing place. The feeding operations of the manually payable sum are performed to confirm the manually payable sum so that the discharged bank notes can be taken out of the storing place. Also disclosed is a bank note dispersing apparatus, in which, when the bank note discharger is charged with the bank notes, the totalled sum of the bank notes is fed as an input for each denomination of the charged bank notes so that it may be stored in advance. The balance is calculated and stored each time the bank notes are dispensed. A warning is generated by an electric near-end mechanism when the balance becomes smaller than a preset value.