It is used for sculpture , jewelry , tableware, and other ornamentations , and is widely used in coinage, photography , dental and soldering alloys , electrical contacts, and printed circuits. Silver may be cast , embossed , inlaid , or worked as wire , sheet , foil , or leaf .
Photographic emulsion contain silver halides, because of their sensitivity to light .
Much more often carved from stone, scarabs in silver are rare partly because silver ones deteriorated over time. Roman, Boscoreale, late 1st century B.C., Cup , silver, partly gilt , diameter 22.5 cm, Louvre. See Roman art . See numismatics . Sasanian Iran, Dish, Shapur II Hunting Lions , 4th century, silver, gilding, diameter 29.9 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.