It is an absolutely necessary step in the entire process of dragon slaying that one cart off the pile of gold. Indeed, previous editions oft as not required that one employ literal carts to carry off the fantastic wealth that a single Dragon might hoard. This was made possible by the letters G and H and by the number nine thousand. And while it is true that the old alphabetical treasure types may have been a bit overboard with the tremendous piles of loot that they handed out, the reverse trend of giving characters piles of gold that fit in one's pocket is fairly unfortunate.