...and when he's done in the courtyard he'll just pay over a gold piece to everyone there, that he hasn't paid already, and a further gold to the oldest woman.
It's not the Good effectivelyaltruistic thing to do, but money in that quantity is meaningless to him now and he may as well use it any time it cheers himself up at least a little, to make people happier for having traded with him. Besides, it's not impossible that people in this world are being run with more realityfluid when they're in his presence, and it's maybe an altruistically well-leveraged use of money to make their lives relatively happier while he's in the middle of passing through them.