Good or bad beach hunting signs?

On a recent search at a heavily hunted tourist beach I saw both good and bad beach hunting signs. 

Little signs that at first may not appear significant, but they can and often do have an outcome on your beach hunts.

The beach I went looking for tourist jewelry at is searched 24/7 by beach and water hunters at night using headlamps, but you can still find gold if you know what you are doing.

I am an area searcher, meaning I look for an area of the beach I believe has the signs to be productive, instead of trying to cover the whole beach relying on luck.

One of the ways I know I have found a promising area to pound is by the coins I detect.

Coins coming out the sand can tell you a lot about an area, especially at a heavily hunted tourist beach.

For example a US quarter, checking out the condition of it and determining if it is a “Fresh drop” or not.  

A quarter is a sizable target and if more than one unrelated quarter is detected in an area it tells me to hang around. If undetected large denomination coins are in an area what else is there? 

You would have to be a very sloppy beach hunter to miss several easy to detect quarters in an area.

Nickels are always a good sign in numbers because they sound good and respond with gold like numbers on all metal detectors with VDI screens. 

The cent isn’t just a nuisance target when detected in high numbers. Two or three humble US cents can easily mask a solitaire diamond ring, even when you sweep a search coil very slowly across the area.

Swap that diamond ring out for a large 10K class ring and I double dare the average beach or water to hear the gold ring between the stinking Lincoln cent. 

The same applies to three or four unrelated dimes in an area, they mask good targets.

Whenever I find a quarter, nickel, dime or cent, I need another coin in the area to help me identify if they are fresh dropped recent losses or unrelated coins.

The condition of different coins in an area help me to do that, an obvious pocket spill is not as good as coins I deem to be lost over time.

Even the grouping of coins in an area tell you something, quarters and nickels detected in close proximity get my toes tingling ! 

They would not be in an area at a heavily hunted tourist beach if the area had been searched thoroughly.

My last two tourist beach hunts in areas with quarters and dimes have coughed up gold, instead of walking in a straight line away from the area like others do, I spiraled and pounded and eventually found gold.

Coins detected at tourist beaches can and often do tell a story if you connect the dots.

The odd coin can be a bad sign, but when they have friends in the same area they are often a sign of good things to come.