我国是世界上最早使用货币的国家之一，至今已有四千多年的历史，出现过布钱、刀币、圆钱、五铢钱、通宝、制钱、银两、银元、铜元以及牺牲品类金银币、谷帛币和纸币，种类繁多，形制多样，币材广泛，堪称世界货币之冠。本书以简明扼要的文字和经纬分明的图表，向读者介绍了各类货币在中国各个朝代的产生、发展和演变情况。对于历代农民起义军的货币和人民币亦作了专门介绍。
书中对中国历代货币的产生、发展及流变作了条理分明，言简意赅的阐说，尤其是大量的图表，更有助于读者对全书内容获得一个总体印象。本书是两位作者数十年潜心研究的结晶，问世后二十年来在钱币爱好者和研究者中已有定评。

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这本书是《我国古代货币的起源和发展》的修订版，原书早已绝版，需求者时所闻，至有人径函作者求索，或询问是否尚处可买到。近三十年来，先秦古钱出土地广量夫，且有前所未见旧作所无者，亟应补入旧作中些缺陷，也亟应改正。因友人建议，遂决意修订补充再版，并改名为《中国古代货币的起源和发展》。修订补充的内容，主要以下三个方面：
1、删除赝品，代以真品。
2、改正错误释文，删省疑问释之文，补入新出土古钱资料，并修改补充有关论述。
3、删除、更换并增添部分图版，改制部分图表。
本书之改订再版，得助于裘锡圭、吴荣曾二位先生者实多，1978年裘先生《战国货币考》发表，使过去许多疑雅钱文不少获得正读，尤以圆肩圆足三吼布钱文为最。修改前，作者曾函裘、吴二先生指教。他两位的指点是多方面的，条目很多，主要的是改正误读的钱文修改相应的论述，剔除赝品，增加“旆布”“两甾”并指出古钱之名布源于布帛之布，不源于农具镈，？、？不当读杲（梁），等等，细致的不能在这里详说。凡应据以修改的，多已采入本文。承蒙二位的好意，允许将他们写給我的长篇意见书附于本版之末，使读者可以知我是怎样根据他们的提示修改的，还什么是应当修改而没有修改的，还有什么是供我继续考虑修改的。
中国历史博物馆耿宗仁先生对修改工作极为热心。闻讯后，即驾临指导。建议于正文中增补楚“旆布”、银布两节，删除图版中古齐刀赝品两件，空首布赝品一件，更换图版，并惠赠馆原始布三品拓本，东周西周圜钱拓本，楚“旆布”二品拓本。山西省考古研究所所长张颔先生惠赠所著《魏币?布考释》，使我得据以改“虞”为“陕”。又蒙寄赠山西侯马出土的空首布二品照片及原平出土的小直刀四品拓本。
文物出版社俞篌尧先生也很热心，代为征得河南扶沟出土的银布照片。
对于以上诸位先生的热情帮助，作者于此深致谢忱。
中国社会科学出版社给予印刷出版方便，使作者得將新版贡献于读者，应于此一并深致谢
本版中错误不妥之处仍在所难免，尚祈海内外学人辱賜瞻
，幸甚。
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See the Invisible Hand. Understand Your World. That's the tagline of Modern Principles and our teaching philosophy. Nobel laureate Vernon Smith put it this way:
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