Identifying 1925 1/2 Quetzal from Guatemala - What are Nobles?

Can anyone help me out in identifying whether this is a type 1 or type 2 coin? I keep reading "with nobles" and everywhere I look - nobody mentions what the nobles are - and I haven't found a page that identifies both types.

Thanks in advance - as always this forum is greatly appreciated.

 

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Krause KM#241.1 with word "Nobles" below scroll; XF, $65.
Krause KM#241.2 without word "Nobles" below scroll; XF, $250.

There's one on eBay, but it's such a lousy photo you can't tell the variety.

 

Wow! When I lived in Guate I should have collected coins!

 

Nice...I always wondered myself about the use of that word. Now I know. Thanks for sharing.

 

Ah hah! And...aww cr@p...

Thanks everyone. I spent a couple hours last night looking for some sort of symbol that represented a "Noble" all over. A bit of focus with the loupe this morning revealed a small word on the coin "noble" underneath the scroll. Oh well, it's still a nice F/VF coin.

I still did ok, I got a bunch of coins from Guatemala and Costa Rica at auction last year. I finally got around reviewing them. I got some pretty choice pieces including some nice counterstamp coins.

If anyone is interested in trading, let me know. Most are mid/late 1800's from Costa Rica and Guatemala. I'm working on completing an MS64 set of peace dollars - and need funding.

 

Latin American counterstamps have the potential for Big Bucks; they are much more popular in South America than our counterstamps are, in the U.S. Almanzar wrote a book (1960s) on them, but there's bound to be something more recent. I'd never sell a counterstamp without knowing Everything about it.