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0 Euro - Locomotives 141.TA - Reines des lignes ferroviaires de montagnes
| Issuer | Eurosouvenier / UEJJ (Union Européenne des Journaux et Jeux) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse lettering | LOCOMOTIVES 141.TA REINES DES LIGNES FERROVIAIRES DE MONTAGNES EUROSOUVENIR 2021-5 0 30 EURO SOUV ENIR 141.TA.320 sur Bort-Neussargues R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEJJ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
| Reverse description | Standard Eurosouvenier reverse with vignettes of six European landmarks arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels). The Mona Lisa portrait appears to the right, with denomination "0 EURO" and printer attribution at lower centre. |
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The 0 euro souvenir note program, administered through licensed distributors like UEJJ, launched around 2015 as a collector-driven initiative printing on genuine banknote paper with real security features — the Oberthur watermark here is not decorative. These notes are legal tender in the technical sense that they bear a denomination, but no issuing central bank backs them and no one is required to accept them. The ECB tolerates the scheme; it does not endorse it.
The 141 TA class were French compound steam locomotives built for mountain lines, their two-axle leading truck and articulated drive making them suited to sustained grades. Withdrawn from service decades ago, the type now circulates only in enthusiast memory — and apparently, on novelty paper.