The US Mint has rejected depicting snow on the quarter to represent Minnesota. “According to the Mint, federal law bars ‘any frivolous or inappropriate design.’ It said that lawyers for the Treasury Department, where the Mint resides, decided in 2000 that a single snowflake didn’t pass the frivolity test. But not until after the Mint had come up with its own large lacy snowflake” and proposed the idea to Vermont.