Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) money.

1894		Truth (Sydney) 14 Jan. 6/6: ‘What game are you at now?’ ‘The game, my boy, the game.’ ‘What, speiling?’ [sic] ‘Speiling be d—, I gave that up this good while. Do you think I’d be such a — fool as to stick my fist into a man’s pockets after his gaunts when he’ll come and give it me himself’ .
1901		W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 16 June 1/1: This ‘gaunce’ grabber was given official notice to drop it nearly two years ago.
1904		Sun. Times (Perth) 17 July 1/1: Greenhorns entrusting their gaunce to this grabster are tolerably sure to be sucked dry.
1910		Sun. Times (Perth) 12 June 2nd sect. 9/1: They Say [...] That any person with a screw-driver and a ton ol assurance can now get away with the gaunce.
1910		Truth (Perth) 8 Oct. 8/8: He can do Just what be wants / In a toffey kind of fashion / To be raking in tbe gaunts.