New Delhi, Apr 23: Reserve Bank has directed all commercial banks to accept coins, without any restriction, from the public either for deposit or exchange. The apex bank would also provide the facility of exchanging coins at its branch in the city.

This has been arranged to mitigate the hardship of the public, a RBI release said. Earlier, RBI had asked banks to exchange soiled and mutilated notes produced at their counters. It had also asked banks to stop stapling notes as it often resulted in their mutilation. Bureau Report