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A Greek exit may start not with boisterous rallies in Syntagma Square, but quietly, in the dead of an Athenian night.

If Greece’s ruling Syriza Party and its partners were to make that momentous decision, Greek banks would clandestinely get word the country is abandoning the eurozone and switching back to its own ancient currency. From there, the coordinated distribution of drachmas would begin, according to a worst-case scenario painted by Alex Jurshevski, the managing partner and founder of Recovery Partners Ltd.

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“They’d have all the bills printed up,” he said in an interview. “They’d be waiting in a bunch of dump trucks.”

The newly pressed drachmas would arrive at various locations of the Greek central bank, and after three or four days of closures to convert the euros, Greek banks would reopen for business.

“It would happen, boom, like that,” according to Mr. Jurshevski, who worked to restructure New Zealand’s debt in the 1990s and consulted with Iceland during its 2010 crisis.