To provide a game medium lending machine capable of preventing the forgery of an unneeded IC card and easily recovering it and a lending and account settling system of a game medium.

This machine is provided with a housing part 11 capable of housing plural IC cards 14, the discharge port 12 of the IC card, a write part 11A for writing prescribed game medium utilization data to the IC card 14, a paper money identification device 41, a paper money feeding port 15 provided in the paper money identification device 41, the discharge button 19 of the game medium the discharge port of the game medium and a first account settlement button 18. In the case that the game medium utilization data remain, the game medium utilization date are written and discharge is performed from the discharge port 12 as the IC card for account settlement. It is exchanged with cash equivalent to the game medium utilization data by an IC card account settlement device and the IC card for the account settlement is initialized and recovered.