貨幣是用于度量價格的工具，和購買貨物的媒介，也是保存財富的一種手段，“吾以吾之所有予市場，換吾之所需”，這就是貨幣的運用手段。不過最早的社會中，是沒有“貨幣”這一說法的，人們普遍以物易物，通過交換來獲得自己想要的東西，之后才誕生了貨幣這一物物交換的中間媒介。我國使用貨幣已經有四千年多年的歷史了，也是世界上使用貨幣最早的國家之一。我們所使用的最早的貨幣是海貝，在如今挖掘出來的史前文化遺址中，也發現了海貝的痕跡。
Money is a tool for measuring prices, a medium for purchasing goods, and a means of preserving wealth. "I give what I have to the market in exchange for what I need". This is the means of using money. However, in the earliest society, there was no such term as "money". People generally exchanged things for each other to obtain what they wanted through exchange. Then money, the intermediate medium of barter, was born. China has used currency for more than 4000 years. It is also one of the earliest countries to use currency in the world. The earliest coin we used was seashells, which were also found in prehistoric cultural sites excavated today.
我國的貨幣不僅有著悠久的歷史，連種類也是十分的多，形成了與其他國家 不同的貨幣文化。海貝作為最早的貨幣，隨著商品經濟的發展，天然的貝殼供不應求，最后就誕生了人工的貨幣，之后隨著時代的發展，出現了銅制的金屬貨幣。春秋戰國之后，以貝為貨幣的歷史就已經成為過去了，而這一時期，人們還沒有形成統一的貨幣，每個地區都有各地的錢幣。秦滅六國之后，將方孔半兩錢作為法定貨幣，我國古代的貨幣形態才固定下來，而這一形態一直延續使用到了清朝末年。
China's currency not only has a long history, but also has many kinds, forming a different monetary culture from other countries. As the earliest currency, with the development of commodity economy, natural shells are in short supply. Finally, artificial currency was born. With the development of the times, copper metal currency appeared. After the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the history of using shellfish as currency has become a thing of the past. After the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six states, it took square hole and half Liang coin as legal tender, and the form of money in ancient China was fixed, and this form continued to be used until the end of Qing Dynasty.
在如今的古玩收藏界，收藏家收藏的玩意種類繁多，有的喜歡瓷器，有的喜歡字畫，而錢幣作為法定的貨幣，在商品交換的過程中起到了重要作用。而拋去貨幣的種種角色，僅僅只作為藝術品和文物，貨幣也深得收藏家的青睞，有時候在拍賣場上也能看到貨幣的身影。無論是現代貨幣，還是古代貨幣，都有收藏價值，每一種貨幣都與當時的政治、經濟、文化有著密切的聯系，所以貨幣也是能夠反映歷史的物件之一。時間不斷的前進，年代越久遠，發行量越少的貨幣，就成為貨幣收藏家眼中的香餑餑。
In today's antique collection, collectors collect a wide variety of things, some like porcelain, some like calligraphy and painting, and money as legal currency, plays an important role in the process of commodity exchange. The various roles of money are discarded, only as works of art and cultural relics. Money has also won the favor of collectors. Sometimes, money can be seen in auction. Both modern currency and ancient currency have collection value. Each currency is closely related to politics, economy and culture at that time. Therefore, currency is one of the objects that can reflect history. With the development of time, the older the time is, the less currency the circulation is, and it becomes a hot topic in the eyes of currency collectors.
雍正十三年（1735年），清高宗即位，改元乾隆。鑄行“乾隆通寶”，要求仍重一錢二分，該錢書法鑄工都比雍正時更為精美。最初清政府仍繼續執行通貨緊縮的政策。錢局較雍正時有所增減，首先在乾隆四年，停了寶河、寶鞏、寶濟三局，于乾隆五年時開寶福局，七年開寶桂局，十年開寶直局。乾隆朝以前的制錢不加錫，以銅、鉛、鋅配制，稱之為“黃錢”，在乾隆五年規定在鑄錢銅料之中加百分之二的錫，稱為“青錢”。官方說是為杜絕私錢，實則無異于減重。“乾隆四十年時，私鑄情況日盛，各省官員出現盜鑄，政府對此無計可施，加上云南銅產量逐年遞減，導致銅價飛漲，鑄錢成本也隨之水漲船高。清政府繼而又采取了通貨緊縮政策，先后停鑄了寶直、大理、廣西、臨安等局，同時鼓勵商人從海外進口銅材。但是這些措施未能從根本上解決問題，私鑄雖有所減少，但官錢不見增加，民間交易缺錢，就出現了使用古錢的現象。到了乾隆五十年后，又相繼開了寶直等局，同時放寬了鑄錢的標準，所以導致乾隆后期制錢的質量參差不齊，大不如初的情況。
In 1735, Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty ascended the throne and changed the reign of Emperor Qianlong. The "Qianlong Tongbao" requires that one coin and two cents should be paid more attention to, and the calligraphy of the coin is more exquisite than that of the Yongzheng period. At first, the Qing government continued to implement the policy of deflation. First, in the fourth year of Qianlong reign, Baohe, Baogong and Baoji were suspended. In the fifth year of Qianlong reign, Baofu Bureau was opened, Baogui Bureau was opened in the seventh year, and Baozhi Bureau was opened in the tenth year. Before Qianlong Dynasty, copper, lead and zinc were used to make coins, which were called "yellow coins". In the fifth year of Qianlong reign, it was stipulated that 2% tin should be added to the copper materials for coin casting, which was called "green money". Officials say it's to stop private money, but it's like losing weight. "In the forty years of Qianlong, the situation of private casting became more and more popular, and officials in various provinces appeared to steal casting. The government could not do anything about it. In addition, the copper production in Yunnan Province decreased year by year, which led to the soaring copper price and the cost of casting money. The Qing government then adopted the policy of deflation, stopped casting Baozhi, Dali, Guangxi, Lin'an and other bureaus successively, and encouraged merchants to import copper from overseas. However, these measures failed to fundamentally solve the problem. Although private casting has been reduced, there is no increase in official money, and there is a lack of money in private transactions, which leads to the use of ancient money. Fifty years after the reign of Emperor Qianlong, Baozhi and other bureaus were successively opened, and the standard of coin casting was relaxed. As a result, the quality of money making in the later period of Qianlong was uneven, which was quite different from the original situation.
乾隆通寶是乾隆時期流通的貨幣，從公元1736年至公元1795年六十年的時間里，乾隆皇帝在位時間整整六十年，而乾隆在位期間，所鑄造錢幣的數量，要遠遠多于雍正和順治通寶。乾隆在位期間，是我國歷史上最后一個輝煌盛世，又因為“乾隆”諧音為“錢隆”，所以乾隆通寶成為很多收藏家爭相收藏的錢幣。
Qianlong Tongbao was the currency in circulation during the Qianlong period. From 1736 to 1795, Emperor Qianlong was in power for 60 years. During the reign of Qianlong, the number of coins was much more than that of Yongzheng and Shunzhi Tongbao. During the reign of Qianlong, it was the last glorious and prosperous period in China's history. Because the homonym of "Qianlong" was "Qianlong", Qianlong Tongbao became the coins that many collectors scrambled to collect.
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