Patent attributes
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for currency control. An example point-of-sale (POS) device for use with physical currency notes includes a scanning system configured to generate physical currency data associated with one or more physical currency notes and a controller operably coupled with the scanning system. The controller is configured to generate digital currency data based upon the physical currency data. The digital currency data includes a digital representation of the physical currency notes. The controller further determines one or more selected physical currency notes for destruction based upon the digital currency data and may query a currency attribute database that includes one or more currency attributes associated with the physical currency notes. The POS device also includes a currency destruction mechanism that causes destruction of the selected physical currency notes.
