diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f46d009494ae..da8bfb7f0837 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ FIXES
 * Fixed bug where chain ID wasn't passed properly in x/bank REST handler
 * Fixed bug where `democli account` didn't decode the account data correctly
 * \#1343 - fixed unnecessary parallelism in CI
+* \#1258 - printing big.rat's can no longer overflow int64
 
 ## 0.19.0
 
diff --git a/types/rational.go b/types/rational.go
index 6e542e110273..dc6569be304d 100644
--- a/types/rational.go
+++ b/types/rational.go
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ func (r Rat) Mul(r2 Rat) Rat    { return Rat{*new(big.Rat).Mul(&(r.Rat), &(r2.Ra
 func (r Rat) Quo(r2 Rat) Rat    { return Rat{*new(big.Rat).Quo(&(r.Rat), &(r2.Rat))} } // Quo - quotient
 func (r Rat) Add(r2 Rat) Rat    { return Rat{*new(big.Rat).Add(&(r.Rat), &(r2.Rat))} } // Add - addition
 func (r Rat) Sub(r2 Rat) Rat    { return Rat{*new(big.Rat).Sub(&(r.Rat), &(r2.Rat))} } // Sub - subtraction
-func (r Rat) String() string    { return fmt.Sprintf("%v/%v", r.Num(), r.Denom()) }
+func (r Rat) String() string    { return r.Rat.String() }
 
 var (
 	zero  = big.NewInt(0)
diff --git a/types/rational_test.go b/types/rational_test.go
index 30abb1a518bd..2483704ed5e1 100644
--- a/types/rational_test.go
+++ b/types/rational_test.go
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ func TestEqualities(t *testing.T) {
 
 }
 
-func TestArithmatic(t *testing.T) {
+func TestArithmetic(t *testing.T) {
 	tests := []struct {
 		r1, r2                         Rat
 		resMul, resDiv, resAdd, resSub Rat
@@ -297,3 +297,14 @@ func TestRatsEqual(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 }
+
+func TestStringOverflow(t *testing.T) {
+	// two random 64 bit primes
+	rat1 := NewRat(5164315003622678713, 4389711697696177267)
+	rat2 := NewRat(-3179849666053572961, 8459429845579852627)
+	rat3 := rat1.Add(rat2)
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		"29728537197630860939575850336935951464/37134458148982045574552091851127630409",
+		rat3.String(),
+	)
+}