Should I Get A Garrett Ace 250 For My Birthday?

It's a decent starter model but you will soon grow tired of it. My first year detecting, I dug a half-dozen silvers. I then upgraded to a higher-end machine 3 years ago and have dug several hundred silvers, silver dollars, halves, 1,000+ wheaties, LC's, etc, and my oldest spanish silver dated 1758, here in Michigan. Not trying to discourage you, but every one of my dirtfishing buddies have upgraded to $1,000+ machines and their finds have increased tremendously.

Islander2010 how does the 350 work on the newer coinage. There are a lot saying the ace is setup for US coins and it has a hart time with the canadian coin?
Any feed back would be great as I'm looking at the 350 as well

WCP, I have had my 350 for a few years now, and have used it in Canada, the USA and South Africa! It has no problems detecting coins in any of these countries. However, you shouldn't pay too much attention to the "coin indicator" - primarily because of differing metal compositions, a Canadian quarter won't always show in the 25c range, can show as a 5c or 50c! I think it's all academic, because I'm going to dig anything that shows as any kind of coin! I never did see the usefulness of the indicator upposedly showing you what kind of coin is in the ground... It's really just making an "educated electronic guess", it's not foolproof, for example most of the time it will read zinc Lincoln pennies as pulltabs! Another thing to remember is that all Canadian plated steel coins tend to read either as either trash or pulltabs... So what I do is set the discrimination really low and dig every target if the area I'm searching isn't too full of trash in the ground. If the area is a high trash find area, then I'll crank up the discrimination and just accept not finding the "new stuff"... If it's metal, the detector will pick it up, it's up to you whether you want to factor out ferrous metals by using the discrimination feature.