0 Euro - Locomotives 141.TA - Reines des lignes ferroviaires de montagnes

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 Withdrawn from service decades ago, the type now circulates only in enthusiast memory — and apparently, on novelty paper.