Abstract: An apparatus for individualising and examining coins includes: a casing with a collecting box, which can accommodate a plurality of different coins in an unsorted condition, a rotor, disposed in the casing and rotatingly drivable in an inclined plane and having at least one coin accommodation, wherein the rotor passes through the collecting box with its at least one coin accommodation in a rotation, so that coins that are present in the collecting box are individually received by the at least one coin accommodation and are guided along a circular orbit, and a sensor device examining at least one characteristic property of the coins, on which coins received by the at least one coin accommodation are guided along by the rotation of the rotor.