For two thousand years, local jewellers have known how to process silver. A mere hundred years passed from the first appearance of imported silver jewellery in Lithuania to the attempts to make artefacts from this metal locally. Silver jewellery and other ornaments were always considered a luxury. In the late 9th century, silver acquired the function of currency, and other goods were measured against it. Thus we can only imagine how respectable a member of the community was if, after death, their silver jewellery was not left for family to wear, but placed in that person’s grave as an accompaniment to the other world. Interestingly, in approximately the 9th century, a large part of raw silver was brought into Lithuanian territory in the form of Arabic dirham coins.