Note the weakness of just one side of a missing clad quarter: Note the weak strike. This is because the thickness of the planchet was reduced.
So if your coin has a full strike, then it may have turned color from being found outside for a time: These will often have silver showing through the high spots where the toning has worn off. So there are a lot of coins that look like that found by metal detector finds.
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