The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 8 December 2010 decided to issue new Rs 5 coins to commemorate the birth centenary of Nobel laureate Mother Teresa. RBI specified that it will put into circulation coins of Rs 5 with the theme, Birth Centenary of Mother Teresa. The coins will be circular in shape and will have a diameter of 23 millimeter.
Mother Teresa who was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Yugoslavia on 26 August 1910 founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. She was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980.
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