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You bet. A tip for youto tell difference, just note the difference on the side between that quarter & a modern one. You notice the modern one has a band of copper in it-silver one's (pre-65) lack the band.
With a date of 1979 the coin has no silver it's a clad coin made of copper-nickel alloy bonded to a core of copper but if the coin is missing on full side it may have significant value. Take it to a dealer for and assessment.
If you mean pure copper, no. Quarters were made of 90% silver / 10% copper up till 1964; in 1965 the composition was changed to the current "sandwich" of 75% copper / 25% nickel outer layers bonded to an inner core of pure copper. If your coin weighs the same as a regular quarter, it's been plated - this is a common high school chemistry experiment. However, if it's thinner than a regular quarter it's possible that you have what's called a lamination error. That happens when the outer cladding on a modern quarter separates from the copper core. Normally that happens only on one side so a double lamination error is fairly scarce; if that's what you appear to have the coin should be inspected in person.
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