What do I do with a treasure chest?

[LHookins]

I rescued a Damsel in the jungle and she had a treasure map for Cayman Island. So I sailed there via Hispaniola, encountered a couple of Spanish ships and captured them, sold them in Port au Prince. All in a day's work. Picked up some ebony at Santiago lighthouse for eventual sale in Jamaica.

Santiago lighthouse to Cayman was an easy sail: 15 nautical miles SSW, another 15 NM SbW (that's just to the west of south for the landlubbers), another 10 or so south and I could use sail-to. Landed at Esmeralda Bay and searched the very small island for the grotto.

Got the treasure. My share was 5 chests of doubloons, a bunch of loose gems and such, about 40 each of the common ones, and two treasure chests. If I hadn't had that Stayer amulet to let me carry any amount of weight (crafted from a recipe, lasts for 120 days) I'd have been rooted to the spot because everything was so heavy. My boarders could have helped carry stuff, I guess. I couldn't even take the stuff from the chest that's normally in the grotto.

But the question is, what do I do with the treasure chests? I can't equip them, don't have an option in the crafting menu for them. Do I sell the entire chest to the banker? I put one chest in the ship cabin chest and still couldn't equip the other. Any ideas?

Hook

[LHookins]

Thanks.

I redid the grotto and gave the doubloon chests to one boarder, and the two treasure chests to each of the other two boarders.

I have one officer who can carry 182 weight, and he couldn't equip the chest either.

So bankers it is. The chests are worth about 100k each then?

Hook

[LHookins]

Yeah, the banker in Beliz had that as a price. He couldn't buy it. So I sold him all my spare gems. Next time I'll buy all his doubloons first. :D

So, 86 + 86 + 75 plus change is 250,000 pesos. Not a bad haul. Is that typical for a treasure map?

[EagleTwo]

Originally posted by LHookins:

So, 86 + 86 + 75 plus change is 250,000 pesos. Not a bad haul. Is that typical for a treasure map?

Yes, it is a common profit from treasure chests. Even when you get a trash(low-tier weapons, island maps etc), it still can be sold for a good money.

[LHookins]

Finally got both chests sold. 86,950 for the last one, and I didn't have to buy doubloons first. :D