Green’s Dictionary of Slang

lurry n.

money.

1663		Wandring Whores Complaint 4: The fifth was a Glasier, who when he creeps in, / To take all the Lurrys he thinks it no sin .
1671		‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 204: The fifth is a Glasier, who when he creeps in, / To pinch all the Lurry, he thinks it no sin.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1712		‘Black Procession’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 38: [as cit. 1671].
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 30: The Ninth is a Ginny, to lift up the Grate, / If he sees but the Lurry with his Hooks he will bait.
1869		‘Thief-Catcher’s Prophecy’ in W.H. Logan Pedlar’s Pack of Ballads 143: [as cit. 1674].
1919		Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 7 June 9/6: Slang of Money [...] It has been called ‘the actual, the blunt, hard, dirt, evil, flimsy, gilt, iron, John Davis, lurries, moss, oil of angels, pieces, rowdy, spondulicks, tin, wad’ .