Cash handling systems comprised of cash registers, cash dispensers, computer hardware, and downloadable computer software for validating, denominating, accepting, storing, sorting, and dispensing currency; cash authentication systems comprised of cash registers, cash dispensers, computer hardware, and downloadable computer software for validating, denominating, accepting, storing, sorting, and dispensing currency; cash security systems comprised of cash registers, cash dispensers, computer hardware, and downloadable computer software for validating, denominating, accepting, storing, sorting, and dispensing currency; cash counting machines; payment and money processing and handling systems comprised of cash registers, cash dispensers, downloadable computer software for validating, denominating, accepting, storing, sorting, and dispensing currency, and computer hardware and equipment, namely, coin validators in the nature of coin acceptors for separating good coins from counterfeits, electronic automatic coin dispensers, coin acceptors for separating authentic coins and notes from counterfeits; Coin mechanism that validates, denominates, accepts, stores and dispenses coins, for coin operated apparatus; coin sorting machines; coin selector machines as mechanisms for coin operated apparatus; computer hardware and downloadable software for remotely collecting electronic data, namely, data from currency counters, currency sorters, currency validators, vending machines, unattended payment systems, coin operated machines, change-making machines, and coin mechanism that validates, denominates, accepts, stores and dispenses coins