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Converting Peck /Bmc Number Into Fman Number And Vice Versa

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How do you convert a PECK /BMC number into FMAN number and vice versa?

Is there a table to do this somewhere online or in a book?
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What do you mean by FMAN ?

What do you mean by BMC ?
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FMAN number is the number in the book The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain, by Michael J Freeman

and PECK/BMC number is C Wilson Peck / British Museum Collection number

I wanted to know if there is an easy table online or in a book to convert a PECK number into FMAN and vice versa for convenience when going through coins.
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To add I don't own neither the Peck nor Freeman books but Collector's Coins GB and in there it will give the PECK number and for newer ones it will give the FMAN number, so if I know at least 1 of the numbers it would help looking the coin up even if the number is different without having to buy both the Freeman and Peck books.
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Michael Gouby's book may help however I haven't seen it.

See http://www.michael-coins.co.uk/our__books.htm
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Appendix III of The Bronze Coinage of Great Britain is titled "Correlation of die references with those stated in the British Museum Catalogue".
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Mr T: thanks for that, that's exactly what I was looking for but without having to buy that book:) Welll looks like I am going to have to get it at some point anyways:)
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If you have this book what does P.1708 remaps as to FMAN #? (It is an 1876 Penny)
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I have Freeman's book, but I see now that you'll probably need both books to convert the numbers. The appendix only converts the obverse and reverse die numbers, not the unique ID numbers in each book.
Freeman numbers for the 1876 penny varieties are 87, 88, 89 and 89A though.
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