Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue new Rs5 coins with the theme `Connectivity and Information Technology''.

The ferritic stainless steel coins will be 23-millimetre in diameter and will have the face divided in three parts with two horizontal lines.

The central portion will have the Ashoka pillar with `Satyamev Jayate'' inscribed below. The top part will contain the word `Bharat'' and `India'' while the lower portion will bear the year.

The other side of the coin will contain two visual metaphors depicting the smooth fluid mass representing the ceaseless flow of information at the bottom. The existing five rupee coins will continue in circulation.