乾隆通宝是清朝乾隆时期的流通货币，民间盛传佩带乾隆通宝铜钱可驱灾辟邪，又因“乾隆”二字谐音“钱隆”使得该币备受后世藏家喜爱。

该钱币铸于清高宗乾隆年间，钱面文字“乾隆通宝”以楷书书写，钱背文字沿雍正满文钱式，穿孔左边有“宝”字，穿孔右边铸有各局名。隆通宝，字从上而下而右而左直读，钱背文字沿雍正满文钱式穿孔左边有"宝"字，穿孔右边铸有各局名。乾隆通宝”版式很多，钱文方面京局的多用宋体，宝浙局多用楷书，宝陕、宝川两局用隶书，但大多数地方钱局用宋体。新疆红钱部分局背满文，其他则背维文和满文。少数钱背有星、汉字，又有记年，记值，合背，吉语等钱。乾隆常见的共有二十二个铸局，新疆红钱有六个铸局。乾隆通宝连宝泉、宝源在内先后有29局开铸，多用黄铜与青铜，也引进国外洋铜浇制法。新疆地区新用方孔圆钱，开设伊犁、阿克苏、乌什、叶尔羌、喀什葛尔、库车等局，因用自产红铜鼓铸、故称为“新疆红钱”或“普尔钱”(“普尔”维语即钱的意思)。乾隆通宝只少数钱背文看见星号或汉字。乾隆通宝还有合面钱、吉语钱以及私铸劣质钱、鹅眼钱等，品类不下百种，存于世上的有雕母数种，至为珍贵。

 

Qianlong Tongbao is a currency in circulation during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. It is well-known that wearing Qianlong Tongbao copper coin can drive away disasters and evil spirits. Because of the homophony of "Qianlong", the coin is loved by later collectors.

The coin was coined in Qianlong reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty. The inscription "Qianlong Tongbao" was written in regular script. The characters on the back of the coin were along the Yongzheng Manchu coin style, with the word "Bao" on the left and the names of each bureau on the right. Longtongbao, the characters are read from top to bottom, right to left, and the characters on the back of the coin are perforated along the Yongzheng Manchu Qian style, with the word "Bao" on the left and the names of each bureau on the right. There are many formats of "Qianlong Tongbao". In terms of money, the capital bureau uses song style, the baozhe bureau uses regular script, and the Baoshan and Baochuan bureaus use official script, but most local money bureaus use song style. Some of the Red Coins in Xinjiang recite Manchu, while others recite Uyghur and Manchu. A small number of money back has stars, Chinese characters, but also to record the year, record value, back together, auspicious language and other money. There were 22 common casting bureaus in Qianlong, and six in Xinjiang Hongqian. The Tongbao of Qianlong, including Baoquan and Baoyuan, had been cast in 29 blocks successively. Most of them were made of brass and bronze, and foreign copper casting method was also introduced. The square hole round coin was newly used in Xinjiang, and ILI, Aksu, Wushi, Yeerqiang, Kashgar, Kuqa and other bureaus were set up in Xinjiang. It is called "Xinjiang red money" or "Pu money" (the Uyghur language of "Pu" means money). In Qianlong Tongbao, only a few Qian beiwen saw asterisks or Chinese characters. There are more than 100 kinds of Tongbao in Qianlong, such as Hexian coin, Jiyu coin, privately cast inferior money and goose eye coin. There are several kinds of carved mother in the world, which are very precious.