Warner,
To be clear, as Ed mentioned, the "a" that appears after the serial number is a suffix that is part of the serial number.
Your Swiss appears to be in wonderful condition, and I believe it's rare.
I am not a Swiss Luger expert, and am basing this post on John Walter's book "The Luger Story".
You have a "New" or "'06 Pattern" Luger.
He lists DWM Commercial manufactured "Swiss Commercial Pattern" in the years 1907 to 1914. They should be 7.65mm (.30 Luger) caliber guns with 120mm barrel. There should be a Swiss Cross on a Sunburst on the top of the receiver. The frame could be of the short or long type, with a grip safety.
There may be a safety marking in German, and the extractor should show "Geladen" when it's loaded.
He lists quantity 1,000 with a question mark, indicating that this is approximate. This has a rarity index of "10" associated with it, with higher being more rare. Since your gun has a grip safety I believe it could be one of these.
He also separately lists a "refurbished" version of this gun, without the grip safety. He lists quantity "675" for this version. This has a rarity index of "7".
This is older information, published 15 years ago.
Marc
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