To provide a low-cost game medium dispensing machine having an extremely simple structure and capable of responding to such a fraud as not involving the rotation of a hopper motor by directly comparing a game medium storage amount detecting sensor with a received signal of paper money.

This game medium dispensing machine puts out game media for use in a game machine from a hopper storing the game media supplied via a game medium supply device in response to the paper money inserted into a paper money identification machine. This game medium dispensing machine is provided with a storage amount detecting sensor provided in the hopper and detecting the storage amount of the game media, a display device displaying the residual amount of the game media based on the detection of the storage amount detecting sensor, a money received confirmation sensor confirming the paper money inserted into the paper money identification machine, and a fraud preventing device having a display device displaying the abnormality to the outside, when the decrease in the storage amount of the game media detected by the storage amount detecting sensor is larger than the amount of the money received signal of the money received sensor.