Slovakia becomes the 16th member of the eurozone on 1 January, when it trades in the national currency, the koruna (crown), for the euro. The path to the euro has not been smooth, but Slovakia - ...

Nestled within the walls of a medieval castle in Slovakia, a 700-year-old mint that once stamped coinage with the faces of European kings and queens produced its first euro coins on Tuesday.

Slovakia, responding to requests from some fellow eurozone countries, has removed the halos from a €2 coin commemorating the 1,150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius in ...

The Slovak Euro Coins exhibit that opened at the Žilina Library on May 10 aims to inform citizens about the introduction of the euro in Slovakia, which is set to take place on January 1, 2009. The ...

Slovakia's mint has started manufacturing euro coins as the country prepares to join the 15-strong monetary union on 1 January 2009. Some 500 million coins weighing 2,406 tonnes began to be produced ...

The Foreigner's Guide to Living in Slovakia reports that “the state mint located in Kremnica began minting Slovak euro coins” this week. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

The central bank has borrowed banknotes worth over €7 billion (Sk210.9 billion) from Austria’s central bank Slovak households have also received information packs containing a euro calculator, ...

Slovakia will issue its commemorative Euro depicting two Christian saints later ... since the design—including the original cross—was one of the finalists when Slovakia issued its coins in 2009.

Slovakia, which will adopt the euro currency from January next year, began producing its own euro coins on Tuesday, said the country's Mint at Kremnica. About 500 million coins, weighing a total ...

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 ...

Even though Slovakia has now been using the euro for longer than it did the Slovak koruna (SKK), a significant chunk of the old currency remains unaccounted for. Currencies used in Slovakia since ...

"I'm kind of like Santa Claus," says Martin Hudec, as he tosses fistfuls of chocolate euro coins to the children gathering around his converted blue van. The van is called the Euromobile, and for the ...