There are millions of lost coins to be found just by searching lawns around people’s homes with your Garrett Ace 250. Add in the coins lost in public locations such as parks and beaches and this number greatly increases.
The majority of these locations are relatively new and so the lost coins and jewelry tend to be quite shallow and within range of the Ace 250. With one of the larger accessory coils, the Ace 250 can punch down to SOME of the deeper coins in older areas. To find the deepest coins, however, it may be necessary to upgrade to a more powerful metal detector such as the Garrett At Pro or to one of the Minelab multi-frequency detectors for the deepest depths.
Despite the fact that the Ace 250 costs much less than the $1,000 plus high-end detectors, the Ace is very effective when searching most modern locations. The moderate recovery speed and easy pinpointing features of the Ace 250 as well as its price tag make it one of the best coin shooter metal detectors on the market.
By using the notch discrimination feature to eliminate all but the coin range, the Ace can be used to cherry pick coins and ignore must of the trash. Unfortunately, some bottle caps and other trash can trick the id but the number of trash items recovered will be greatly reduced. Fortunately, the majority of silver items are also located in the coin range and will be recovered while digging the coins. Some of the thinner silver items, however, fall just below the penny notch and may be missed.
When metal detecting areas that may contain older coins, it is better to run the relic or jewelry modes as some valuable coins may be missed due to target masking. In old locations, I prefer to dig all strong repeatable non-iron signals. While I end up digging more more trash, I also find some coins hidden among the trash.
Parks, schools, yards, sledding hills and ballfields are great places to find coins, especially when located in older neighborhoods. Dimes, quarters, and half dollars minted before 1964 are 90% silver so focusing on places in use before 1964 can result in finding some nice silver coins. Demo sites, where old houses or buildings are being torn down are also fun to detect because the top layer of grass is often removed, making it easier to detect the older coins that may have been too deep to detect prior to sod removal.
It is also possible to find coins at the beach, but often these coins are heavily corroded. When at the beach, I prefer to focus on finding jewelry though some old coins can show up after a big storm if it makes a cut in the beach sand.
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