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Originally Posted by Vlim

You have 1 to 10,000.
Then 1a to 10,000a.
Then 1b to 10,000b.
Etc ...

What Vlim said. At the beginning of 1913, the first 10,000 made would not have a suffix letter. The second 10,000 made would have suffix letter a and the third 10,000 would have suffix letter b and so forth and so on.

In 1914 and each year thereafter, the process was repeated.

The exceptions to that rule included the first contract of 1908 when 50,000 Lugers were ordered from DWM. Delivery began in 1909 and the serial numbers were continuous into the e suffix uninterrupted until the contract was completed in 1911.

When Mauser began production of Lugers, they continued through the alphabet without regard for the calendar date and used the entire alphabet more than once. IOW, they didn't start each year with a run of 10,000 without a suffix letter.