To provide a bill handling apparatus for creating a wrapped stack of bills by stacking a predetermined number of bills to create the stack of bills, and then winding a binding tape around the created stack of bills including the predetermined number of bills, the apparatus being capable of creating stacks of bills that can be managed as desired.

The bill handling apparatus includes a bill stacking part 20 for stacking a predetermined number of bills; a wrapping process part 31 for creating a stack of bills by winding around the predetermined number of bills stacked by the bill stacking part a binding tape T formed with an inlet having an IC chip and an antenna built in, and wrapping the stack; an RFID reader 10b for reading RFID data written on the bills; and an RFID writer 35 for writing the RFID data on the IC chip in the inlet of the binding tape.

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