A process for producing coated silver fine particles comprising: a first step of forming a complex compound comprising a silver compound and an alkylamine by mixing a silver compound capable of generating metal silver by thermal decomposition, an alkylamine represented as an alkylamine RNH 2 having a primary amino group in the amine moiety or alkylamines RR'NH having a secondary amino group in the amine moiety, wherein R and R' each independently indicate a hydrocarbon group, and at least one alcoholic compound having a solubility in water and has a boiling point of 70°C or more and/or a compound having at least one of a carbon-heteroatom multiple bond and a heteroatom-heteroatom multiple bond in the molecule, and a second step of generating silver fine particles coated with a protecting layer including the alkylamine by thermal decomposition of the complex compound, wherein the compound having a carbon-heteroatom bond or a heteroatom-heteroatom multiple bond in the molecule is selected from the group consisting of ketone compounds, aldehyde compounds, ester compounds, amide compounds, carbamide compounds, imide compounds, oxime compounds, nitrile compounds, isonitrile compounds, isocyanates compounds, cyanate compounds, azo compounds, nitro compounds, nitroso compounds and azides; and wherein the amount of alcoholic compound and/or a compound having at least one of a carbon-heteroatom multiple bond and a heteroatom-heteroatom multiple bond is 5 mol% to 500 mol% relative to the alkylamine. a first step of forming a complex compound comprising a silver compound and an alkylamine by mixing a silver compound capable of generating metal silver by thermal decomposition, an alkylamine represented as an alkylamine RNH 2 having a primary amino group in the amine moiety or alkylamines RR'NH having a secondary amino group in the amine moiety, wherein R and R' each independently indicate a hydrocarbon group, and at least one alcoholic compound having a solubility in water and has a boiling point of 70°C or more and/or a compound having at least one of a carbon-heteroatom multiple bond and a heteroatom-heteroatom multiple bond in the molecule, and a silver compound capable of generating metal silver by thermal decomposition, an alkylamine represented as an alkylamine RNH 2 having a primary amino group in the amine moiety or alkylamines RR'NH having a secondary amino group in the amine moiety, wherein R and R' each independently indicate a hydrocarbon group, and at least one alcoholic compound having a solubility in water and has a boiling point of 70°C or more and/or a compound having at least one of a carbon-heteroatom multiple bond and a heteroatom-heteroatom multiple bond in the molecule, and a second step of generating silver fine particles coated with a protecting layer including the alkylamine by thermal decomposition of the complex compound, wherein the compound having a carbon-heteroatom bond or a heteroatom-heteroatom multiple bond in the molecule is selected from the group consisting of ketone compounds, aldehyde compounds, ester compounds, amide compounds, carbamide compounds, imide compounds, oxime compounds, nitrile compounds, isonitrile compounds, isocyanates compounds, cyanate compounds, azo compounds, nitro compounds, nitroso compounds and azides; and wherein the amount of alcoholic compound and/or a compound having at least one of a carbon-heteroatom multiple bond and a heteroatom-heteroatom multiple bond is 5 mol% to 500 mol% relative to the alkylamine. <EOS>