rich_2137 said:
Just looking to hunt for coins and anything I come across really hammered gold coins would be nice tho!
I've never used that detector but I have an old Whites classic II metal detector and really like it. It doesn't have anything fancy. No display of any kind, just a couple dials. I did find out that it has an internal variable resistor that you can adjust with a tiny screwdriver to set the "ground balance". I don't know if the Ace 250 has that feature but it is a good thing to have.
Like I said, my detector is old, maybe the new ones have automatic ground balance. One of the "tricks" I liked to do with my detector, to show off, was to adjust the ground balance and switch to all metal mode. I could find fired lead bullets with it where they landed. I did find coins, occasionally something old, but mostly just found newer coins as well as junk. You could discriminate out the pull tabs and other worthless junk but many times I dug it up anyway just in case it was something good. They may have gotten better (probably have) but mine wouldn't pick up a gold ring unless the discrimination was set pretty low.
My thought is, if you are just getting started metal detecting, there is no real
need to get anything real expensive just for coin hunting. Gold nugget hunting is a little different though and you might need a detector designed for that. I wouldn't suggest getting a toy metal detector though. I think mine was around $200 when I bought it many years ago. At the time I think it was Whites lowest cost detector. I had a Garrett (don't remember the model) and got rid of it because I couldn't get it to pinpoint as well as I hoped it would. The Whites model that I still have is dead on. I can pinpoint exactly where a target is but maybe with more practice I could have figured out the Garrett.
Like any new hobby, it will take a little time to get good at it but it is a fun hobby. I never found much of real value but I expect it had a lot to do with where I hunted. It was still fun though.