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Types8
Possible values50, 150, 800 or 1,500 Rupees (set per save file)
Where to sellTreasure Teller, Mercay Island
Highest valueRegal Ring, always 1,500 Rupees

Phantom Hourglass has eight kinds of treasure: Pink Coral, Pearl Necklace, Dark Pearl Loop, Zora Scale, Goron Amber, Ruto Crown, Helmaroc Plume and Regal Ring. They are mainly there to be sold. Each kind is worth 50, 150, 800 or 1,500 Rupees, and the game fixes that price once for your save file. The Treasure Teller on Mercay Island is where you find out what each one fetches.

The Treasure Teller introducing himself as the teller of treasures

Where treasures come from

Treasures turn up in chests and pots, in shops, as rewards and from sunken chests. Shops, Beedle’s shop ship among them, can stock a treasure. Nyave hands over a large pile of them if you rescue him from monsters in the Southwestern Sea, and the sparring matches against Nyeve on the Traveler’s Ship in the Northwestern Sea can pay out treasure too. Which kind you get is down to the game, so no kind belongs to one spot. Treasure Maps #6 and #28 each raise a random treasure from the seabed; see Treasure Map Locations.

Selling to the Treasure Teller

The Treasure Teller’s shop is on the east side of Mercay Island, north of the shipyard. Hand him a treasure to be appraised and he names its price, which you can then accept or refuse. The value stays hidden until that first appraisal, so you cannot compare a treasure’s worth beforehand. He also deals in ship parts.

The Treasure Teller names a price of 800 Rupees for a Goron Amber

Treasure values

When the game builds your save it picks a value for each treasure type from 50, 150, 800 and 1,500 Rupees, so your Zora Scale may be worth far more than someone else’s. The one fixed price is the Regal Ring, which is always 1,500 Rupees. The Ho Ho Tribe, who sail in the Southeastern Sea, buy one particular treasure at a time, which changes at midnight on the DS clock, and pay a little more than the Teller does, so check them before you sell.

A Ho Ho Tribe merchant offering 1332 Rupees each for a treasure

Trading treasures

Freedle’s boxes on Mercay Island swap treasures and ship parts with another player in Tag Mode or Battle Mode. This relies on a second DS, and Nintendo’s online service for the game has been shut down.

Freedle singing that the Magic Boxes trade through Tag Mode or Battle Mode

Quick reference

#TreasureWhere you can find itRequirement
Pink Coral 1Pink CoralChests, pots, shops, rewardsNone
Pearl Necklace 2Pearl NecklaceChests, pots, shops, rewardsNone
Dark Pearl Loop 3Dark Pearl LoopChests, pots, shops, rewardsNone
Zora Scale 4Zora ScaleChests, pots, shops, rewardsNone
Goron Amber 5Goron AmberChests, pots, shops, rewardsNone
Ruto Crown 6Ruto CrownChests, pots, shops, rewardsNone
Helmaroc Plume 7Helmaroc PlumeChests, pots, shops, rewardsNone
Regal Ring 8Regal RingChests, pots, shops, rewardsNone; always worth 1,500 Rupees

All eight treasures

Pink Coral

Pink Coral

Coral polished until it gleams, a piece meant for admiring. The value is one of the four random tiers.

Link holds up the pink coral Nyave gave him for his help
Pearl Necklace

Pearl Necklace

A strand of pure white pearls. Its value is randomised per save file between 50 and 1,500 Rupees.

Dark Pearl Loop

Dark Pearl Loop

A necklace of rare dark pearls. Its value is random per save file.

Zora Scale

Zora Scale

A rare, glittering scale that a Zora supposedly dropped. Its value is random per save file.

Goron Amber

Goron Amber

A Goron treat prized because a bug is trapped inside it. Its value is random per save file.

Ruto Crown

Ruto Crown

A crown that is said to have belonged to a Zora princess. Its value is random per save file.

Helmaroc Plume

Helmaroc Plume

A showy feather shed by a Helmaroc bird. Its value is random per save file.

Link holds up a Helmaroc Plume won in the third sparring match
Regal Ring

Regal Ring

A ring passed down through generations of royalty, and the most valuable treasure: the Treasure Teller always pays 1,500 Rupees for it. It turns up in the same places as the other treasures.

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