The use of this precious metal by the Etruscans was similar to that of gold in making jewelry and coinage. Contemporary to Phoenician use of silver, in the last quarter of the eighth century BC silver first began to be employed to make various forms of personal adornment including rings, hoops, spiral hair pins/earrings, cosmetic fastners, pendants, and more elaborate sheets of silver. Another prominent area of production was that of decorated vessels of a number of forms. The silver may well have been mined in Etruria.
Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans. Simon K. F. Stoddart.