RBI to issue coins on Rajendra Prasad, Tagore

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said that it would issue new Rs 5 coins to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of the country's first president Rajendra Prasad and 150th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindrnath Tagore.

"The RBI will shortly put into circulation Rs 5 coins with themes '125th birth anniversary of Rajendra Prasad' and '150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore'," RBI said in a statement.

The coins commemorating both the doyens would be circular in shape and have a diameter of 23 millimeter, it added.

The existing Rs 5 coins will continue to be in circulation.