Ace 250 readings

[Howard Snell]

I've been reading this forum for years and finally decided to post a question about my beloved ace 250

If I'm looking for silver quarters and dimes how will the read out vary from the newer worthless quarters and dimes not made of silver?

Also is it advisable to dig every target or trust the read out display when it definitely says it's not a quarter or dime?

Thank you in advance for your thoughts

 

[:Left4Dead]

Yes the Quarters and Dimes ring the same as the new ones. In using mine for about a month, very hard core. I have already went though 2 sets of batteries.

If it does not say its a dime or quarter its most likely not. If you are just looking for coins, you would pass on the ones that are definitely not, but that's tough to tell sometimes when they are really deep.

If it hits dime , then bounces , then dime then bounces , it still could be a dime, on its side or deep so its hard to get a dime, ring on both swings. Or even next to another object. Its really up to you as you dig more of the iffy signals you get to know it better.

I am pretty new with the ace 250 but I have had other detectors before. My first time on this forum. I cant wait to meet everyone.

 

[Howard Snell]

Thank you Mr. Dead

 

[16penny]

Some of those iffy signals could be rings and that is where the money is. I'm new to this hobbie myself but been hitting it pretty hard the last couple months in between the rains. Haven't found any silver coins yet but plenty of clad and worthless rings. One of these days i hope to stumble across a real gold ring so I dig a lot of non coin signals. Any one want to buy a pull tab.

 

[dahut]

I've been reading this forum for years and finally decided to post a question about my beloved ace 250

If I'm looking for silver quarters and dimes how will the read out vary from the newer worthless quarters and dimes not made of silver?

Also is it advisable to dig every target or trust the read out display when it definitely says it's not a quarter or dime?

Thank you in advance for your thoughts

Never completely trust the display - no matter what detector you own. The only sure discrimination is your eyes and the computer between your ears.
Trash generally reads like, well... trash. But I found a nice golden Scorpio medallion and chain once, that gave every indication of being junk.
Only because I knew where to look for it, did I recover it. Had it been anywhere else, I would have passed it up for what it [size=medium]seemed[/size] to be - junk.

As for silver coins vs. "worthless" clad coinage, they do not vary to any great degree as regards their TID.
When clad coinage was developed, it was deliberately made the electrical equal to the previous silver coins. This was done not so detectors would work with them, but rather, so existing vending machines would accept them.
There might be a VDI point or two worth of difference in the lab, but in the field with all the possible variations, it amounts to nothing.
A quarter, is a quarter, is a quarter, in other words.

As for them being worthless, well... the last time I kept track of my clad coinage, I had amassed well over $300 worth of the stuff in one year. The number $367 sticks in my mind. And that was with casual detecting. This makes clad coin look better all the time. In fact, in most years, my clad out-values vintage coins by some margin. Im betting most detectorists have the same results.

Silver coins have not circulated for almost 50 years now, and there have been two major, market-driven meltdowns since then. To be blunt, there aren't many left..
If you detect ONLY for silver coins, you risk getting skunked an awful lot.

You may wish to rethink clad as worthless.