2,970. The Valuation of an Ancestral Field

Hilchos Arachin Vacharamin 4:2

The valuation of an ancestral field is 50 shekel for all the years until yoveil (the Jubilee year) – excluding the yoveil itself – for every chomer of barley (about 70 gallons) that can be sown by hand, neither too closely nor too spread out. This is the valuation whether one consecrates the best field in Israel or the worst.

Hilchos Arachin Vacharamin 4:3

It was already discussed in Hilchos Shekalim that the shekel of the Torah was called a sela by the Sages, and the geira of the Torah was called a maah. They added to the shekel to make it equal to a sela, which is four dinar. A dinar is six maah, and a maah is two pundion. (See more here.) The result is that the valuation each year is a sela and a pundion. A sela is 48 pundion, but when one gives pundion to a money changer for a sela, one pays 49.