AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic vending machine capable of suppressing execution of a transaction by electronic money of a kind which a user does not intend.SOLUTION: In the automatic vending machine by which sale of merchandise is possible by utilizing a plurality of kinds of electronic money, a malfunction is prevented by including: an antenna 20 which is common to the plurality of kinds of electronic money to read/write cash information stored in a cash information storage medium (such as an IC card); and a touch panel 30 for specifying the kind of electronic money, separating the antenna 20 from the touch panel 30, and arranging the antenna 20 and the touch panel 30 by separating them from each other so that a hand does not touch the touch panel 30 when the cash information storage medium is passed over the antenna 20 by holding the cash information storage medium in one hand and the cash information storage medium does not reach a communication area of the antenna 20 when the touch panel 30 is operated.