diff --git a/ethutil/value.go b/ethutil/value.go
index b336345ca..e8148b990 100644
--- a/ethutil/value.go
+++ b/ethutil/value.go
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 package ethutil
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
 	"math/big"
 	"reflect"
+	"strconv"
 )
 
 // Data values are returned by the rlp decoder. The data values represents
@@ -93,6 +95,9 @@ func (val *Value) Int() int64 {
 		return new(big.Int).SetBytes(Val).Int64()
 	} else if Val, ok := val.Val.(*big.Int); ok {
 		return Val.Int64()
+	} else if Val, ok := val.Val.(string); ok {
+		n, _ := strconv.Atoi(Val)
+		return int64(n)
 	}
 
 	return 0
@@ -246,10 +251,7 @@ func (val *Value) Cmp(o *Value) bool {
 }
 
 func (self *Value) DeepCmp(o *Value) bool {
-	a := NewValue(self.BigInt())
-	b := NewValue(o.BigInt())
-
-	return a.Cmp(b)
+	return bytes.Compare(self.Bytes(), o.Bytes()) == 0
 }
 
 func (val *Value) Encode() []byte {
diff --git a/ethutil/value_test.go b/ethutil/value_test.go
index 710cbd887..5452a0790 100644
--- a/ethutil/value_test.go
+++ b/ethutil/value_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package ethutil
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
 	"math/big"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -78,3 +79,8 @@ func TestMath(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("Expected 0, got", a)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestString(t *testing.T) {
+	a := NewValue("10")
+	fmt.Println("VALUE WITH STRING:", a.Int())
+}