丁福保先生(1874～1952)是我国近现代著名学者,在医学、文字学、文献学、辞书学、佛学、钱币学等方面都取得了相当高的成就,并在版本学、目录学、博物学等方面深有造诣,被人们誉为“百科全书式的学者”。本文就丁福保先生对我国钱币学的贡献作以浅述。在人类数千年文明史的长河里,流通过数以千万计的各种各样的钱币。这就自然引起人们收藏的兴趣,成为收藏的一个主要门类和重要方面。它也引起史学家的注意。对收藏钱币有兴趣的文人则对钱币进行了专门的述录。据丁福 Ding Fubao (1874 ~ 1952), a famous scholar in modern China, has achieved quite high achievements in medicine, philology, documentology, lexicography, Buddhism and numismatics, And other aspects of deep attainments, has been hailed as “encyclopedic scholar ”. This article gives a brief account of Ding Fubao’s contribution to China’s numismatics. In the long history of thousands of years of human civilization, thousands of different kinds of coins flow through. This naturally arouses people’s interest in collectibles and becomes one of the major categories and important aspects of collectibles. It also draws the attention of historians. Literary men who are interested in collectibles have a special account of the coins. According to Ding Fu