There are many excellent works documentation the history of money and how financial technology have been fundamental to human innovation. Indeed, this blog post series will build upon these works and reference these sources throughout the series.
However, instead of focusing on the well documented financial history, this series will try to fill the gap between the history of money, ancient numismatics, and on how we can draw parallels and conclusions to the modern world and how the evolution of decentralized blockchain technology could forever change our monetary future.