A container for receiving currency bills or the like includes a plurality of adjacent compartments (22) and a housing (12) enclosing these with a closure unit (18) which is designed for selectively unblocking a predetermined compartment opening. The compartments are made up of individual compartment receptacles (22) which are arranged to be movable in the housing (12) parallel to the direction in which the compartment opening points and to which a positioning device (136) is assigned, through which respectively one compartment receptacle (22) can be moved between a waiting position, in which it is completely inside the housing (12), and an access position in which it partially protrudes out of the opening which is unblocked by the closure unit and substantially corresponds to the cross section of the compartment receptacle (22).