Sliding bearing (10) comprising a back metal layer (12), a bearing layer (14) applied to the back metal layer (12), at least one intermediate layer (16) applied to the bearing layer (14) and an overlay (18) applied to the at least one intermediate layer (16), characterized in that the overlay consists of a tin matrix (20) and a silver-tin intermet- allic phase (22) distributed in the tin matrix, wherein the silver-tin intermetallic phase (22) is distributed homogeneously in the tin matrix (20) and wherein the silver-tin intermetallic phase (22) consists of particles, most of them, preferably more than 99% of them having a particle size ≤ 1 micron.