Commentary for Kiddushin 23:12
אמר שמואל קידשה בתמרה אפילו עומד כור תמרים בדינר מקודשת חיישינן שמא שוה פרוטה במדי
Samuel said: If a man betrothed a woman<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'her'.');"><sup>18</sup></span> with a date, even if a kor<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A measure of capacity; v. J.E. XII, 489, Table 3.');"><sup>19</sup></span> stood at a denar,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that one date is worth far less than a perutah.');"><sup>20</sup></span>
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
According to Shmuel, if a man betroths a woman with an object that we know to be worth less than a perutah she is still betrothed. For we are concerned that maybe the item is worth a perutah elsewhere. Essentially what Shmuel is saying is that objects do not have absolute worth. A date might be worth very little in a place where dates are abundant (a kor, a large measure of volume, of dates sells for a dinar). But take one date it to a place where they are not abundant, and its value will go way up.
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