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The Colombian Bank Note Company was a short-lived Washington-based security printer active in the late nineteenth century, operating in a market dominated by the American Bank Note Company. Banco de Bogotá, founded in 1870 as Colombia's first private commercial bank, turned to this smaller firm for at least part of its early note production — an unusual choice that may reflect competitive pricing or a prior commercial relationship rather than any dissatisfaction with the established houses.

Colombia's private banking period of the 1870s and 1880s was unusually permissive by regional standards, with individual banks issuing their own circulating notes under minimal federal oversight until the 1886 constitution began consolidating monetary authority.