Slovakia will adopt the euro from 1 January, becoming the 16th country to use the euro as its currency.
Slovakia will adopt the euro at a rate of 30.1260 Slovak koruna to €1.
Commercial banks in Slovakia began to receive euro notes and coins in September and have been supplying them to shops and other businesses so that they can handle payments and return change in euro from Thursday.
The display of prices in both euro and koruna will be compulsory until 1 January 2010.
The euro was first created in 1999 when 11 countries, including Ireland, locked the bilateral exchange rates of their currencies and equipped themselves with a single monetary and exchange rate policy.
Euro banknotes and coins were introduced in 2002.
Slovenia joined the euro area in 2007, and Cyprus and Malta joined in 2008.
