Green’s Dictionary of Slang

goree n.

money.

1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn).
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Goree, Money, but chiefly Gold. Old-Mr.-Gory, a piece of Gold.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit gloss.: Old Mr. Gory A piece of old Gold.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1741		Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 38: goree Gold dust.