Since it's been raining 2-3 weeks in a row, I haven't been to the tot lots-cause they haven't been used for that long. So I've had to go to the trashy spots and use coins mode. Well,, one of the schools has a trashy part that no one searches so I just go to sens#2 in the coins mode and hope to surface pick the coins among the heavy trash. What gets me is the # of coins that are poppin' up . I searched this little strip in front of the school-only about 3 feet wide - about 2 weeks ago and today 4 QUARTERS showed up-not shiny, just dropped quarters-dirty ones that look like they've been there for months-the top four in the pic. I don't know if it's because the Ace's not reacting to the trash as much or if maybe less reaction to the ground. I did get to go to one of the schools and use the Relics mode, my favorite, and thus the cleaner coins. This machine's growing on me more each day.