Banknote-handling system

A banknote-handling system includes a plurality of banknote-handling machines (, . . . ); a plurality of banks for accounting purposes, etc; a co-ordinating central unit; a transport system ( . . . ) for transporting banknotes between the machines and the banks; a central bank for monitoring the activity and banknote-handling of respective banks; and an electronic information and signal transmission system (-) for enabling individual and co-operative activities of the units to be achieved. The information and signal transmission system (-) is divided into two subsystems. One subsystem includes the transmission of information and signals that relate to and have their basis in transactions between the banks and the general public/businesses relating to their activities in respect of banknote-handling. The other subsystem includes the purely administrative and technical signal transmission required for the requisite co-operation between the various units included in the system, for instance co-ordinating central unit-vehicles, banknote-handling machines-banks, within the banknote-handling system.