Both Uses

avarice
in
Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
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OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY SUCCESSION Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.†
Chpt 2.

avarice = excessive desire for wealth
Oppression is often the CONSEQUENCE, but seldom or never the MEANS of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.†
Chpt 2. *

Definitions:

(1) (avarice)
excessive desire for wealth

Like "greed", but implies greed specifically for money. The early Christian Church counted avarice as one of the "seven deadly sins."
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)