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I received my ACE 250 from my daughter for my birthday almost 4 years ago. After studying the manual and tinkering around with the descrimination adjustments and practicing on my own coins to become accustomed to the different sounds I was ready to find that burried "pot of gold" in my back yard. Instead, I found quite a few 'wheat' pennies, a couple silver mercury dimes and a 1963 silver quarter in good condition. All within a couple hours. I was estatic and soon could tell from the different sounds what was junk and what was treasure. Setting the descrimination elimination modes helps eliminate the foil from the pull tabs. I leave the pull tab setting on because the nickel and the pull tab must have similiar characteristics as I find an auful lot of nickels. I have a place in Myrtle Beach and hit the beach a couple times a year. I can't tell how many hundreds of coins of all demoninations including the dollar ones I have found. My best finds so far were a gold heart with diamonds, a silver heart necklas, a gold toe ring, a silver bracelet, a silver ring and a couple gold/diamond earrings. Keep in mind these beaches are searched regularly by the locals who live there year round using all kinds of metal detectors. The pin pointing feature is right on as is the depth feature. If the detector beeps there IS some kind of treasure hidden beneath it. The coin demonination scale is pretty accurate except for nickle and pull tab. If someone plans to search along the shoreline (The search coil is waterproof) I suggest setting the "sensitivy" mode to a very low setting avoiding picking up the salt mineralization in the sand and deffinately get earphones for those weaker signals. Just before winter (I live in NY) I searched for my final time at my in-laws 100 year old farm home, as I have done several times before. I uncovered a 1909 indian head penny and a 1900 silver quarter in fair condition about 6 inches down. A great way to end the fall hunting season. I plan to buy Garrett's new 9" X 11" search coil to help me find the "ones that got away". Highly recommended....don't pass this one up!!