The goddess Anoia is well known to Discworld stamp collectors. Anoia is the Goddess of Things That Get Stuck In Drawers, and followers will rattle their kitchen drawers once a day to gain her attention. It was to her that Moist von Lipwig turned to in order to find the money that was required to rebuild the Ankh-Morpork Post Office building after the fire, during the events of Going Postal. Anoia subsequently personally assists Moist and Adorabelle Dearheart during Making Money by causing Cribbins dentures to spring wide open - perhaps in return for her enhanced following after Going Postal. Thus Anoia is a natural subject for an Ankh-Morpork stamp.

The Penny Anoia stamp was designed by Johnny Pagan as evidenced from the sheet margin logos, and was freely adapted from Roundworld charity fundraising stamps sold to support the Prince of Wales Hospital Fund in 1897. This charity is still going as The Kings Fund, advising the NHS on a variety of issues. The stamps were printed in sheets of 30 by Cripslock, the engraving firm, and were released in the Year of the Signifying Frog. Thus they are an early example of a Discworld stamp that is not the work of Teemer & Spools. It is rumoured, though ther is no evidence of this in Going Postal that Cripslocks were originally considered for the first Ankh-Morpork stamps. There was a sport on the sheet - Anoia is missing her fish slice from around her neck.

The common stamp and sport pair as found on the bottom row of the stamp sheet. In the British Library is an A4 sized copy of an original design with Anoia as depicted on the stamp, but a a quite different approach to the design. This must have abandoned early on, for a few years ago the designer sold a pack of Anoia material by online auction. There were proof sheets and work-in-progress print outs showing how the stamp design was developed.   It has been reported that 500 Anoia sheets were printed. Many would have been broken up to distribute as single stamps and a number of whole sheets would also have been sold. But it may be that this was a slight over-order. Apart from a few Anoia stamps being used for other reasons, entire sheets were on offer with the God of the Month club three years after their release in order to clear the decks for when it was withdrawn.