*spoilers* In comparing treasure hoards...

[mousmous]

...between Longtooth and Freezmaw; I'm confused. I get that Freezemaw has a lot of magic items and the greatly changes the value of his hoard, but I assumed, as most anyone would that the pile of coins he collected for 300 years would eclipse the pile of coins that Longtooth's been collecting for x number of years(and complaining about the size). And yet, they are....weirdly similar and yet off-puttingly disparate:
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Longtooth:
360,000 cp
29,000 sp
3,000 gp
23 pp

Freezemaw:
39,000 cp
9,000 sp
3,000 gp
120 pp

What the what?! One expects both magic items present AND coin total to be much greater for the older, and more powerful, dragon. What am I missing? I searched the boards and found nothing, so if there's an old thread about this, please point me to it.

[Adjoint]

Dragons Revisited, p. 60 wrote:

White dragons are pack rats that never throw out anything, and thus their hoards are as varied and individualistic as the dragons who form them. Unlike all other kinds of true dragons, whites do not possess any preference for one kind of treasure or another. (...) White dragon coin beds run significantly smaller on average than those of their cousins, and most supplement this lack of size with items made of non-precious metals, such as steel hammer heads or iron pitons.

So it comes down to a difference in species.

[mousmous]

Ok, thanks for that. I think I'm going to ignore that bit- a little too deep into the lore for my players. Thanks, though!

[Tusk the Half-Orc]

And for that matter, how are the PCs supposed to find the relative handful of valuable coins in Longtooth's hoard when they're mixed with 360,000 copper pieces?

[Kalshane]

It's the dragon horde equivalent of those people who make protest payments using truck loads of pennies.