Water in oil droplets are used to control the size of silver metal nanoparticles. After synthesis, the silver metal particles are extracted from reverse micelles and redispersed in a non polar solvent. By increasing the size of the water droplets the average size of silver nanoparticles increases from 2 nm to 7 nm with a rather high size distribution. To narrow the panicle distribution a size selected precipitation method is used. By deposition of a dilute solution containing the coated particles on a carbon grid, the particles arrange themselves in a monolayer organized in a hexagonal network. At high particle concentration, the particles are organized in multilayers forming microcrystals arranged in a face centered cubic structure. The optical properties of the silver nanoparticles isolated in micellar solution or self-assembled in 2D or 3D supperlattices are reported.