One of the recent trends in design of coin series is use of jigsaw design.It was first used in series of collector coins issued by France on centenary of Tour de France in2003. The face value of each coin was 1.5 Euro, a non standard denomination. Tour de France is aseveral days long, nation wide cycling race, held annually. A cycle chain was the unifying itemacross the reverse.

This was taken in to circulation coins by Mathew Dent, who made jigsaw design in UK design, in2008. The Royal Coat of Arms, shown in full on reverse of 1 Pound coin, was used a jigsaw designon reverse of 6 denominations. Incidentally, the 2 Pounds circulation coin was not included in theseries.

Later, in 2013, another series of collector coins, again from France, formed a jigsaw image of"RF" ( for Republic of France ) .