I didn't pull my Repro out, but my recollection is that the main fields are impression marked. There are indicatons of raised metal around the markings. There are also indications of hand engraved scroll scattered thruout.
The roll marking/impression die has to be made by an artist. This is commonly done in roll marking dies by creating a master that is much larger scale, then a pantograph (duplicator not unlike stock duplicators) is used to duplicate the pattern in the die at a reduced size and in reverse. The die is polished as needed and hardened in an inert atmosphere heat treat to prevent scale.
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