研究古钱币在中国已经有一千数百年的历史,但是把钱币学作为一门学科来宣传来研究则是近二十年的事。近二十年来,钱币学研究借鉴历史学、考古学等相关学科的研究方法,甚至应用了化学、物理学等科学分析的手段,取得了可喜的成绩。但是,我们也要看到,钱币学的学科建设还有很多工作要做。任何一门独立的学科,除了要有自己独特的研究对象外,还必须有自己独特的研究方法,钱币学也是这样。版别研究的方法是钱币学独有的方法,但是在版别繁杂的宋钱和清钱的研究方面,对于版别所代表的确凿含意、版别划分的标准仍然缺乏深刻的认识。德国学者布威纳先生毕生研究清代钱币,他整理了大量的清代钱币实物,更难能可贵的是他查阅了大量的文献资料,特别是大量清代档案中的钱局铸钱报告,获得了大量的可靠的一手资料,他提出了清代钱币版别代表不同年份的观点,并据此排出了一个清代钱币年表。无论布威纳先生的结论是否完全正确,是否还有需要进一步完善的地方,他的研究方法是值得重视和借鉴的。为此我们编译了布威纳先生的这篇文章,把他的研究方法和成果介绍给钱币学界的同仁们,以期对钱币学研究和学科建设有所推动。 Studying ancient coins has existed for thousands of years in China, but it has been almost two decades since numismatics was advocated as a discipline to study. In the past two decades, the study of numismatics has drawn lessons from the research methods of history and archeology, and even used the methods of scientific analysis such as chemistry and physics to make gratifying achievements. However, we must also see that there is still much work to be done in the discipline construction of numismatics. Any independent discipline, in addition to have their own unique research object, but also must have its own unique method of research, numismatics as well. The method of versioning is unique to numismatics. However, in the case of complicated Song and money studies, there is still a lack of deep understanding of the exact meaning represented by the version and the standard of the version. The German scholar Mr. Bouviene spent his life studying coins in the Qing Dynasty. He compiled a large amount of coinage in the Qing Dynasty. Even more commendable was that he consulted a large amount of documents and materials, especially the large amount of money bureau reports in the Qing dynasty archives, A large number of reliable first-hand information, he proposed the Qing Dynasty coins version of the views of different years, and accordingly drained a Qing chronology. Regardless of whether Mr. Bouviner’s conclusion is completely correct or not, there is still room for improvement. His research method deserves our attention and reference. To this end, we compiled this article of Mr. Bouviner, introducing his research methods and achievements to colleagues in the numismatic community with a view to promoting numismatic research and discipline construction.