diff --git a/convert.py b/convert.py
index 19840a09e..e9fe25b78 100755
--- a/convert.py
+++ b/convert.py
@@ -366,24 +366,14 @@ class SentencePieceVocab:
             added_tokens = json.load(open(fname_added_tokens, encoding="utf-8"))
         else:
             added_tokens = {}
-        items: list[tuple[str, int]] = sorted(added_tokens.items(), key=lambda text_idx: text_idx[1])
-
-        tokens_to_replace: dict[int, str] = {}
-        new_tokens: dict[int, str] = {}
-        for piece, idx in items:
-            if idx < vocab_size:
-                tokens_to_replace[idx] = piece
-            else:
-                new_tokens[idx] = piece
 
+        new_tokens: dict[int, str] = {id: piece for piece, id in added_tokens.items() if id >= vocab_size}
         expected_new_ids: list[int] = list(range(vocab_size, vocab_size + len(new_tokens)))
         actual_new_ids: list[int]   = sorted(new_tokens.keys())
 
         if expected_new_ids != actual_new_ids:
             raise Exception(f"Expected new token IDs {expected_new_ids} to be sequential; got {actual_new_ids}")
 
-        # Key is the original token ID, value is the replacement token piece.
-        self.tokens_to_replace          = tokens_to_replace
         # Token pieces that were added to the base vocabulary.
         self.new_tokens_list: list[str] = [new_tokens[id] for id in actual_new_ids]
         self.vocab_size_base: int       = vocab_size
@@ -394,7 +384,7 @@ class SentencePieceVocab:
     def sentencepiece_tokens(self) -> Iterable[tuple[bytes, float, gguf.TokenType]]:
         tokenizer = self.sentencepiece_tokenizer
         for id in range(tokenizer.vocab_size()):
-            piece = tokenizer.id_to_piece(id) if id not in self.tokens_to_replace else self.tokens_to_replace[id]
+            piece = tokenizer.id_to_piece(id)
             text: bytes = piece.encode("utf-8")
             score: float = tokenizer.get_score(id)