1963 Jeffy

so pardon my noobishness, but run of the mill vs brilliant uncirculated. haha to be honest to me this looks brilliantly uncirculated but I still have an un-trained eye

I think there is a bit of confusion here. Your nickel is not uncirculated, it is a proof strike which is quite different from an uncirculated business strike(coinage made for circulation). Proofs are specially minted for collectors and a proof of that era will typically have brilliant surfaces, i.e. polished and mirror-like vs. the cartwheel luster that is typically found on an uncirculated coin. Proofs are also struck twice and higher-than-normal pressure so they will almost always have much better details than an uncirculated coin. Unfortunately, modern proofs also tend to be much more common and less expensive than very high grade uncirculated coins.