PURPOSE: To provide an electrical contact having a considerably elongated endurance life by adding a predetermined ratio of Ag to Rh.

CONSTITUTION: As an electrical contact material used for a reed switch, etc. Rh contg. 0.1W10% Ag is used to improve an Rh contct, and a contact, esp. a contact for a reed switch having an assured long endurance life over a wide range of conditions about voltage, current and load is obtd. The life of this contact is 10 million times or more when the contact is used in an exchanger with 48V cable load applied, and the life is 1 million times or more in case of the condition of 50V, 100mA resistance load. This Ag-Rh alloy is, e.g., coated onto tip contact portions 5, 6 of lead pieces 1, 2, by plating, sticking, welding or other method, set opposite to each other with certain overlapping and a certain gap in hermetically sealed container 3, thus constructing one contact.